A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong

 

Casey has been in Rockton now for 4 months. She and Eric had finished one case. But, today Eric has a run out of town to do. One of the guys has taken off into the forest. So, her and Will decide to go into the woods to find him and bring him back. They took the snow mobiles and go after him. Not knowing that a storm is coming. 

They don't make it far when Will hits a tree and gets thrown from it. The snow is starting to fly and she needs to get him and head back to town. Will isn't to bad off and they decide to go looking for some place to sit and wait for the storm to pass. The cave they find, ends up having someone in there. They need to get her out of the hole. They know that she tells them that the guy will be back soon enough. She talks Will into taking one of the snow mobiles back to town being they can only get one started.  What happens after they leave, is she's attacked by someone in the woods that has been watching them.

She knows that Eric is going to be mad and when he gets back he will be coming out to look for her. He's good with tracking, when it comes to the forest. 

After getting back to town she speaks to Nickel who is the women that has been in the hole, in that cave for over a year. Whomever did this to her, they are going to need to find them. Her and Eric do go back to the cave and look around and when she falls down a craves. She lands on two older bodies and they end up bringing them back to town. 

Some where out there in that forest is a murder. It's up to them to find him.

I will say that this book is as good as the first book in this series. I will be reading the others too. This one is worth picking up and eric is so interesting to read about. He's very complex and hides a lot of himself from many of the people in the town. Pick up this book. You might like it.  

The Society by Karen Winn

 

In this book you meet two women, on young and one older. Taylor works as a nurse in a hospital her aunt has helped her get when she moves to Boston. She decided to come because her mom moved here and then, she died in a fire. She always had this thing about rich peoples clothes and wanting to look good. Even though, she can't afford to buy the Richie rich stuff herself. 

Vivian is a woman in her 40's and owns an antique store. She does some business with a place they call the Knox. It's considered a secret society kind of place. Vivian has always known that her back ground coincides with it. She's always wanted to find the proof. That's why, when she meets Peter who's part of the Knox she thinks she can get information from him. Instead, she ends up in his bed. 

Taylor's working in the ER and Vivian is brought in. She has fallen down the stairs and has a brain injury. They put her in the ICU. Taylor would take a few minutes out of her day to go up and check on her. Then, one time she goes and Vivian isn't there and no one knows where she went. She tries to look it up but, finds out that it's set to private and she can't look it up. She knows it doesn't make any sense. 

After her landlord comes by and says that the Knox is looking to hire. She just feels that she need to go. She meets Peter and she has a hard time concentrating. She get hired on a trial bases. The place is a lot different and there are many secrets inside this place. What she doesn't know is things aren't going to be exactly what she hopes it is. Trying to get information from the people that works there doesn't really pan out. 

This book is a slow burn but, it progresses quite nicely as you keep going on turning the page. Its a newer book that came out this year. It was quiet interesting to me and I enjoyed it more then I thought I would. Pick it up and see what you think. 

City of the lost by Kelley Armstrong

 

This the first book in the Rockton series. Casey is a detective and has been hiding in a way from something she has done many years ago. She killed a guy. Her friend Diana seems to get into trouble because she can't seem to get away from her ex-husband. Diana mentions this place she's heard about that takes people in that need to hide. 

Casey finally decides to contact them after her boyfriend if that's what you call him gets shot. At first she's told she's not a good candidate but, they need someone like her. She's a homicide detective and pretty damn good at her job. Meeting Eric Dulton, he's a peace of work and a hard ass. They finally agree to take both her and Diana. She is afford the job for only six months. 

The trip there isn't easy and where she's going is in the Yukon. Cold place. Eric is the Sheriff and he informs Casey that there have been people that have gone missing. After, getting there she's finding out that it's more then them going missing, they seem to turn up dead and in a gruesome way. Not easy for her to see. Eric is still not easy to deal with.   He's a lot grumpy and seems to watch her and spends a lot of time outside looking into the forest not far from their little town.

Trying to figure out what's going on, he seems to constantly be watching her and showing himself into her house. 

As time goes by, she gets into the hang of things in the town. Trying to figure the mystery out and trying to understand Eric. He teaches her a lot about the woods. There are some reveals in this book that surprised me. I'll have to read another book in this series. 

Read the book if you haven't, its really, really good. Short chapters as will. 

Gothikana by Runyx

 

Corvina Clemm lost her mom to a disease that took her mind. A little while after that she gets a letter inviting here to a mysterious University of Verenmore. She's never been to a real school because her mom had always home schooled her. This would be a great adventure for her. 

The University is on a mountain and the road looked quite dangerous. She has to have the window opened because she got car sick. She gets to the school and its bigger than she thought. She doesn't know about all the stories about the place yet. She meets Jade who's going to be her roommate. Seems like a nice girl.

What she doesn't expect is the part time professor Vad Deverell. Silver eyes and a gray streak in his hair. If you look at her, she has purple eyes which are quite different. Seeing him from afar, she notices that he's been looking at her. She does end up in one class he teaches and he tries very hard to keep from looking straight at her but, has to when he's talking to her. There's a lot of energy coming off her and it's making him nervous when they are around each other. 

Jade and some of her friends start talking about a black ball and every year it seems that someone disappears. Corvina also has been hearing things that starts to freak her out. Stories are one thing and finding out the truth is another. 

Vad, starts to have problems staying away from Corvina and when he catches her at some ruins in the forest he just has to kiss her. He knows that he's never felt this way about another person and wants to know what will happen if he just tries on thing. Sparks fly every where for both of them. He calls her a witch and she' calls him a devil. 

By the end of the book you'll find out what's really going on at the University. Plus, many other things. Everyone has got to love a happy ending. Pick up the book and read it, you never know you might be surprised by the whole thing. 

Note: Just a warning for all who might want to read this book. The author has added a note in the front of the book saying that this is a book for those 18+ and above. Content isn't for the faint of heart.

Phantom Evil by Heather Graham

 

This is a first book in a new series to me. Paranormal and ghosts. Adam has called Jackson in to tell him that he is going to head of crew that are very special. Jackson has had things happen to him and he has lost members of his last crew. He is skeptical when it comes to ghosts. He is told that he will meet with, Angela, Jake, Whitney, Jenna and Will. They were to find out what happened to Regina Holloway and why she was found laying on the ground of the house her and her senator husband had bought.

Jackson needed to find out everything he could about the house. Besides, while Angela was in the house by herself, she had found a Shelton buried in the basement. Angela knew there were ghosts in the house. She just didn't know how many. Being that they are in New Orleans the city of ghost stories. 

Angela had been in Redina's room laying on the bed with her eyes closed and the felt something. She opened her eyes and saw two kids, a boy and girl playing Jacks on the floor in front of her. Then, she saw the really bad guy that murdered many people in the house standing in front of the kids with an axe. Lets just say it was pretty and she screamed. 

Jackson needed to speak with senator Holloway and everyone that worked for him. He knew that there was more going on then, he was told. Even those conversations didn't completely pan out at first and he just sensed that the senator had been having an affair. The senator did try to explain that his wife really wasn't his wife any more and after their son had died, all she wanted was her son back and not him. 

There was a lot going on in this book and besides the ghosts and something evil in the house. Jackson and all of them, needed to find out the truth. I'll say this, the ending to this book was very good. Pick it up and find out how it ends. It's worth it even though it's a first book in a series. 

All that remains by Patricia Cornwell

 

This is the third book in the Kay Scarpetta series. First of all, I got to say that this women is a very smart, very human and really good at her job. 

There have been a total of 4 couples that have been murdered in the area of Richmond Virgina. Kay Scarpetta is the one doing the autopsies in the county. Marino is the head detective on the seen of the fifth murder and this time it's a high profile one. Debbie is the daughter of a high ranking person that works under the President. To Kay and Marino it isn't going to be easy. Then, Bentan shows up. What the hell is the FBI doing here. 

Kay knows that when he shows up things aren't going to go so will. She hates her job at times and when Bentan asks her to hold off on her reports, which is something she doesn't like doing. Something is up. 

Then, she gets a call from her friend Abby. She's a reporter and say she's got some information and could she meet her at a coffee shop not far from her apartment. Abby, tells Kay that she thinks she's being watched, followed and someone has broken into her apartment. Kay thinks Abby is just being paranoid. Is she? 

When the mother of Debbie, Pat. Calls Kay and asks her to come to her house. Kay knows this may not be a good idea. But, she goes. Pat, starts asking her all kinds of questions and Kay keeps trying to tell her that she can't answer those questions right now. Pat accuses her of hiding things. Kay walks out of that house asking her some of those questions as will. 

This book moves fast and you find out things about the killer. But, you'll have to read the book to know how it ends. I really don't like giving away the endings. That's why I say read the book. It's worth it. Every single page.  

On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah

Annie and Blake were taking their daughter to the airport, because she was going to London for spring. After dropping her off and they get home, he tells her that he wants a divorce. It sends her for a loop. She's loved him for almost 20 years. He also tells her that he's been sleeping with someone else. I think in a way she sort of new that he'd been doing that for awhile. 

So she cried for a few days, maybe a week. Then, decides to go back home and visit her dad in Mystic. It might help her or it might be worse. After a few more days of crying her dad is getting tired of it and tells her to do something. She says she might as will go get a make over. She meets a quickie women that gives her a short hair cut and changes everything she looks like. She also hears about Nick. Nick lost his wife about a year ago and he has a daughter Izzy. She doesn't talk. 

She decides to go out and see him. Ask him if she can help him out by watching his daughter. When he opens the door and sees her. He's surprised. He lets her in. He gets them something to drink and grabs a blanket. He heads to the lake. They both sit down and it becomes a little strange between them, tell he moves closer to her and kisses her and then the clothes come off. Pretty much they have crazy hot sex right there and afterwards, she thinks, what the hell did she do. He tells her not to feel bad and she runs for the car. He follows. How does Monday sound concerning Izzy. 

Nick's a cop in the town. Once Annie starts watching Izzy she notices that she's wearing a black glove. Izzy thinks she disappearing like her mother disappeared. It will take some time to get Izzy to come around and it doesn't help that her dad comes home late and has been drinking. There are a lot of things wrong in this family. It's going to take awhile to help them, which is what she's good at. 

After getting angry at him and telling him he needs to be home for his daughter. It takes him getting into an accident to wake him up. He begs Annie to take him to a motel and watch his daughter while he deals with himself. He starts going to AA meetings and it will be a one day at a time thing. 

After having feelings for Nick and getting closer to him and his daughter, Blake shows up. She also finds out that she's pregnant with his child. It just about breaks Nicks's heart to see her go back home. 

Lets put it this way, with all the ups and downs in this book. I was wanting a happy ending. Love, real close, heart thumping love doesn't happen for everyone. This book had tore my heart out more then once. I couldn't put it down. Pick it up and read it if you haven't yet.